Category: 5. Entertainment

Families have flocked to a day of dinosaur celebrations in Hull city centre.

Dino Day, organised by Hull BID, included puppet-style displays of a raptor, a dilophosaurus and a parasaurolophus, along with free face-painting, a “super sleuth” trail and a colouring competition.

Laura, 40, attended with her children Amelia, 10, Harrison, six, and Christopher, seven.

“It’s a really awesome idea and it’s been brilliant,” she said.

“With the cost of living nowadays, it’s really nice. I think it’s wonderful they’ve put this event on for everybody to take part in.”

Organisers estimated that between 8,000 and 9,000 people attended.

RAWALPINDI:

Rawalpindi’s entertainment arena is losing its landmarks as yet another historic venue is being erased. Nishat Cinema, located on Liaquat Road near the historic Liaquat Bagh, has been demolished after 75 years.

Built in 1950, during the golden era of Lollywood, the cinema primarily showcased Punjabi films, with occasional Urdu screenings. At that time, a general transport terminal operated next to Liaquat Bagh, and moviegoers would often catch the last show at Nishat before departing to cities like Lahore.

Once home to 24 cinemas, Rawalpindi no longer screens any films. Fourteen cinemas have been replaced with plazas and commercial centres, three converted into wedding halls, two occasionally hosting theatre performances, and five remaining shut for 25 years—whose owners have also applied for demolition permits to build commercial complexes.

Nishat Cinema once enjoyed packed audiences, including screenings of Indian films until 1952. It flourished until the 1990s, after which the decline of Pakistan’s film industry led to the closure of many theatres. Internal disputes among the owners and court cases forced Nishat’s closure in 2000.

Following a settlement between the parties and the end of litigation, demolition began on Friday to make way for an approved eight-storey commercial plaza. The site, considered prime property on Liaquat Road, has long been a focal point for passersby—and even the subject of disputes and gunfire.

With this demolition, Rawalpindi’s once-thriving film industry has all but disappeared. Cinemas such as Naz, Shabistan, Gulistan, Sangeet, Rose, Novelty, Taj Mahal, Imperial, Nigar, Tasveer Mahal, Rex, Capital, and Qasim have all been converted into plazas.

Kahkashan, Nadir, and PAF have become wedding halls. Moti Mahal and Rialto occasionally host theatre shows while Khurshid, Plaza, Odeon, Serose, and Garrison have been shut for over two decades.

Shawn Mendes has taken a surprising turn ahead of his global tour, quietly moving into the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Tew. With a population of just 200, the singer appears to have traded red carpets and paparazzi for countryside cafés and historic pubs.

Locals in the Oxfordshire village, already home to British celebrities like David Beckham and Simon Cowell, have spotted the Canadian pop star around town. According to one resident, Mendes has rented a modest home to enjoy some solitude before his international dates begin. “No one ever asks for selfies, so he must love being left alone,” the source noted, adding that he was recently scolded for placing a café order just before the kitchen closed.

Mendes’s most recent album, Shawn, was released in late 2024 and marked a deeply introspective phase in his career. Describing the record at the time, he said, “It helped me reconnect with myself, allowing me to work through emotions, find clarity and feel stronger.” His decision to base himself in Great Tew fits that narrative, with its peaceful countryside and sense of anonymity offering a welcome contrast to the limelight.

He has since jetted off to Budapest for the opening night of his tour, which will include stops in Denmark, Austria, Germany, and London’s O2 Arena before heading to the United States. The tour promises an evolved sound and a renewed sense of purpose.

Fans have taken to social media to share sightings and speculate on how the English countryside is influencing the singer’s next creative phase. So far, Mendes seems content keeping a low profile in one of the UK’s most exclusive but peaceful celeb hideouts.

EXCLUSIVE: After hitting it big with the Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell rom-com Anyone but You, Will Gluck hopes lightning strikes twice as he looks to have landed on another pair of young stars to light up the screen for his next feature. Sources tell Deadline that Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner are set to star in One Night Only for Universal Pictures.

Sources also say the film will bow on August 7, 2026. Gluck will direct the project based on his rewrite of Travis Braun’s Black List script.

The script topped the 2024 Blacklist, and while it’s unknown if Gluck’s version will stray from the original story, the draft follows two strangers who scramble to find someone to sleep with on the one night of the year when premarital sex is legal.

Gluck will produce through Olive Bridge Entertainment. Jacqueline Monetta, VP of Olive Bridge Entertainment, will oversee and produce with Gluck. Senior EVP Production Development Erik Baiers and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for the studio.

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Gluck had been weighing a handful of options following the success of Anyone but You and finally landed on this project on his next film. Given his track record of taking rising stars including Emma Stone, Sweeney and Powell and turning them into A-listers, the project attracted a ton of talent; Barbaro and Turner were top choices from the start.

Barbaro has had a slew of offers to choose from following her first Academy Award nomination earlier this year for her star-making performance as the iconic folk singer and activist Joan Baez in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. She is in production on Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial opposite Yura Borisov and Andrew Garfield for Amazon MGM.

Next up, Barbaro will make her stage debut at London’s National Theatre in a revival of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liasons Dangereuses opposite Lesley Manville and directed by Tony and Olivier Award winner Marianne Elliott. She’ll also star in Bart Layton’s Crime 101 opposite Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry and Chris Hemsworth for Amazon MGM. Barbaro is also known for her breakout role as Phoenix opposite Tom Cruise and Miles Teller in Top Gun: Maverick, which received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.

As for Turner, he next will star in the film Rose of Nevada from Protagonist Pictures, written and directed by Mark Jenkin, opposite George MacKay, which will have its world premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. He also will star in A24’s romantic comedy feature film Eternity, directed by David Freyne, opposite Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller. The film is set to debut at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival in September before its theatrical release in November. Also upcoming, Turner will appear in the drama thriller film Rosebush Prunning, directed by Karim Aïnouz, starring alongside Jamie Bell, Riley Keough, Elle Fanning and Pamela Anderson.

Turner recently completed production on Neuromancer, Apple TV+’s adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel. He will star as Case in the 10-episode series from creators Graham Roland and JD Dillard. He also attended the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the world premiere of Atropia, a war satire film written and directed by Hailey Gates, produced by Guadagnino, also starring Alia Shawkat. The film won the Grand Jury Prize in the festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition.

Gluck directed the 2023 box office hit Anyone but You, starring Powell and Sweeney. He also helmed 2011’s Friends with Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, and 2010’s Easy A starring Stone, in addition to launching the Peter Rabbit franchise.

Barbaro is represented by UTA, Range Media Partners and Meyer & Downs. Turner is represented by WME and Curtis Brown (UK). Gluck is repped by UTA and Sloane Offer.

Disney’s body-swapping comedy Freakier Friday and New Line’s acclaimed mystery-comedy Weapons are off to the races at the late-summer box office.

The two August pics are expected to end up in a close race for No. 1 domestically and topple Marvel Studio’ struggling holdover The Fantastic Four: The First Steps from the top spot. Marvel and parent company Disney are still hopeful that Fantastic Four will rebound, but there are no assurances.

Horror could use a win after such box office bombs as Blumhouse and Atomic Monsters’ M3GAN 2.0, which opened to only $10 million in June on its way to topping at $40 million worldwide, compared to $180 million for the first film.

Zach Cregger’s Weapons — which currently boasts a 96 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes — grossed a hefty $5.7 million in previews. It had been tracking for a domestic debut in the $25 million to $30 million range, but could come in higher. The R-rated title was the subject of a heated bidding war when it hit the market, with New Line and parent company Warners plunking down $38 million for the package, which including a $10 million payday for Cregger, who made waves with his debut feature film, 2022’s Barbarian, which he both wrote and directed.

New Line is also home of Final Destination: Bloodlines, which earned $5.5 million in previews earlier this summer on its way to a domestic debut of $51.5 million (there’s a lot more male-skewing product in the marketplace presently).

Weapons, an original story, stars Julia Garner as a teacher who learns that 17 of the 18 children in her classroom simultaneously got out of bed and ran off into the night the exact same time, 2:17 a.m. Josh Brolin plays a grieving father who is intent on finding his missing child, and is suspicious that the young teacher had something to do with it.

Aden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams and Amy Madigan also star in Weapons, which will be playing on coveted Imax Screens (Imax is also rereleasing summer hit 51: The Movie on select screens this weekend before offering more showings the following week.)

Freakier Friday will play in hundreds of other premium large format screens, including Dolby Cinema auditoriums.

The family comedy — reuniting Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis 23 years after Freaky Friday opened — earned $3.1 million previews, including special sneaks on Wednesday. That’s on par or ahead of Elvis ($3.5 million), the most recent Mean Girls ($3.3 million) and The Lost City ($2.5 million), all of which opened in the $28 million to $31 million range domestically. That lines up with what prerelease tracking shows for Freakier Friday.

Already boasting a 94 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, It’s the first event pic in weeks to target females, and should also benefit from the nostalgia factor. A fun tidbit: after all this time, the 2003 film has popped up on the top 10 list of most watched films on Disney+ in the last week or so.

Directed by Nisha Ganatra, the modestly budgeted $42 million movie picks up after the events of the first film, when Lohan’s character, Tess, swapped bodies with her mother, played by Curtis. This time out, in a multigenerational twist, they find themselves swapping places, respectively, with the daughter and soon-to-be stepdaughter of Tess. Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Rosalind Chao, Chad Michael Murray, Vanessa Bayer, and Mark Harmon also star.

The Freaky Friday franchise, which also includes a 1976 film, is based on the book by Mary Rodgers. Disney has enjoyed great success in tapping into nostalgia and luring young adults in their 20s and 30s who grew up on previous installments in its library. For example, it’s live-action tentpole Lilo & Stitch, based on the 2002 animated film, is the only Hollywood pic of 2025 so far to clear the $1 billion milestone after attracting both families and non-parents.

Film studios execs across Hollywood lament how comedies have become an endangered species in the streaming age. Last weekend, Paramount’s Naked Gun reboot bucked this trend in opening to nearly $17 million domestically. While that film is considered more of a straight-up comedy, versus a family comedy such as Freakier Friday, it will be good news for all if they both work.

Colson Baker, better known as Machine Gun Kelly, is a big character and Grammy-nominated musician. Fans are gearing up for a new album, while he continues making headlines while coparenting with Megan Fox. MGK recently spoke about performing at the Super Bowl as the Chiefs lost, and the lesson he learned after hanging out with Taylor Swift in Travis Kelce’s suite.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are a hot couple, and the public is invested in their relationship. The “Shake It Off” singer regularly went viral while attending the Chiefs’ games, and MGK was there to perform at the Super Bowl when the team ended up losing the Big Game. In an interview with ABC about his new album, the rock star gave a warning to musicians who might be thinking about a similar gig. In his words:

Just let me be the only one that could say I’ve done it. Don’t ever sign yourself up for that. Wait to sign the paper until you find out, till third quarter or something. Until it looks like it’s going one way or the other.

Exhibition of the week

Millet: Life on the Land
The Musée d’Orsay has lent Millet’s iconic Angelus for this journey to the dark side of the landscape.
National Gallery, London, until 19 October

Also showing

Aubrey Levinthal
Superb, subtle paintings from the streets and sofas of Philadelphia.
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 13 September

Wael Shawky
Brilliant cinematic retellings of the history of east and west, plus the surreal marionettes and sculptures that star in them.
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, until 28 September

Tai Shani
Shani’s public sculpture The Spell or the Dream celebrates 25 years of Somerset House as an art venue.
Somerset House, London, until 14 September

Andy Warhol
Powerful examples of Warhol’s work from the Artist Rooms collection cast a cool, far-seeing eye on the modern world.
Lightbox Gallery, Woking, until 2 November

Image of the week

Bridging art and politics, Peter Kennard has produced some of our most influential images of resistance and dissent since the 1970s. Gaza, his new exhibition of graphic work, showcases multimedia prints he has made in response to the daily news reports and footage of the near-erasure of Gaza and the thousands of Palestinians killed. It runs alongside the Edinburgh festival at Palestine Museum Scotland, 9-31 August.

What we learned

A terrific Edinburgh art festival show combines queer kings and modern wonders

The Whitney’s “Untitled” show reopens the book on American history

Spacecraft designers have seen the future … and it’s vegetarian and polyamorous

With teamwork and determination, a group of Indigenous basket weavers in the Australian desert took the art world by storm

Pop star Kate Jackson has reinvented herself as an artist of Britain’s motorways

The performance artist, set designer and director Robert Wilson never stopped pushing boundaries

Copenhagen has a second Little Mermaid statue – and it’s got to go

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Juergen Teller’s coffee-table book about Auschwitz is shockingly bland

Stanley Donwood looked back on 30 years creating Radiohead’s artwork

Masterpiece of the week

Landscape With a Watermill by François Boucher, 1755

In this painting from about a century before Millet’s barren peasant scene The Angelus, the French countryside looks a much cheerier place. Soft focus trees form a velvety blue-green sanctuary for a mill whose dilapidation and decay strikes Boucher as delightfully picturesque. In fact, it doesn’t look like a real place at all but a dreamy idyll, inspired by Chinese landscape scenes which were hugely popular in 18th-century Europe. You can picture Boucher’s aristocratic clients delighting in this view of country life and even having a water mill like this one built as a garden folly beside their water feature. And yet, a drawing by Boucher apparently of this place suggests it may actually depict a real water mill beside the Seine.
National Gallery, London

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs may not be heading to prison after all, as his legal team prepares to request that the music mogul serve his upcoming sentence under home confinement. His lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, revealed plans to argue for supervised release with mandatory therapy, saying Combs is already seeking counselling for drug dependency and anger management.

The 55-year-old Bad Boy Records founder was found guilty in July on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. However, he was acquitted of more serious allegations involving sex trafficking and racketeering. Despite the partial acquittal, the conviction has left Combs facing several years behind bars, with sentencing due on 3 October. Until then, he remains incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

According to Agnifilo, Combs had already entered a batterer’s intervention programme before his 2024 arrest. Since then, he has lined up a team of therapists to begin treatment immediately after release. The lawyer told TMZ, ‘I think he needs it, I think he thinks he needs it,’ adding that the court will be asked to make therapy a formal condition of his sentence.

The push for leniency has stirred speculation online. While supporters argue the star deserves a second chance and mental health care, critics accuse him of using therapy as a calculated legal tactic. Public interest in the case remains high, especially following rumours that his team reached out to Donald Trump for a possible pardon, something the attorney has denied.

Judge Arun Subramanian will make the final call on whether Combs stays confined to his home or serves time behind bars. For now, the hip-hop mogul’s future hangs in legal limbo.

After a record-breaking year, Disney Jr., which currently dominates preschool television with the top three shows on streaming for Kids 2-5 — Bluey, Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse — unveiled a slate of new series, specials, casting news and premiere dates today. The announcements were made by Ayo Davis, president, Disney Branded Television, at the “Disney Jr. Let’s Play!” fan celebration at Disney California Adventure Park, which will also be taking place at Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, California, throughout the weekend.

Highlights included new series Cars: Lightning Racers, inspired by Disney and Pixar’s Academy AwardⓇ-winning Cars films, with Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy reprising their iconic roles; Marvel’s Avengers: Mightiest Friends, the first-ever preschool Avengers series; and two new seasons of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+, which debuted July 22 on Disney+ as the biggest original Disney Jr. launch on the platform to date* and was also the #1 streaming series in average audience for Kids 2-5 in its premiere week, per Nielsen.**

Said Davis: “Disney Jr. is where preschool magic begins — and no one does it bigger or better. Our shows are often a child’s very first connection to the world of Disney, sparking the songs they sing, the characters they adore, and the adventures they want to live again and again.” She continued, “Today’s announcements build on that leadership, expanding the worlds kids already love and introducing new multiplatform stories that will capture the hearts of the next generation.”

NEW SERIES, SPECIALS AND SHORTS

CARS: LIGHTNING RACERS (New Series)

• Debuts 2027 on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Disney Television Animation in association with Pixar
• Executive Producers: Travis Braun and Frank Montagna
• Story Editor: Dana Starfield
• Supervising Director: Nathan Chew

Building on Disney and Pixar’s beloved Cars franchise, Cars: Lightning Racers follows Lightning McQueen as he gears up for all-new adventures in Radiator Springs alongside his hilarious best friend Mater and new friends thrill-seeking drag car Pipes and mud-loving monster truck Miles. The all-star cast returning to their original roles includes Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen, Larry the Cable Guy as Mater, Tony Shalhoub as Luigi, Cheech Marin as Ramone, Bob Peterson as Chick Hicks and John Ratzenberger as Mack. Leah Lewis (Elemental) and Yuri Lowenthal (Marvel Rivals video game) join the cast as Pipes and Miles, respectively. Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary) will also voice a new character, Ms. Blinker.

MARVEL’S AVENGERS: MIGHTIEST FRIENDS (New Series)

• Debuts 2027 on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Disney Jr. and Marvel Studios in association with Atomic Cartoons
• Executive Producers: Sean Coyle, Bart Jennett and Harrison Wilcox

Evolving from the new Marvel’s Iron Man and his Awesome Friends series (premiering Aug. 11 on Disney Jr., next day on Disney+), Marvel’s Avengers: Mightiest Friends introduces kid versions of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes: Iron Man (Tony Stark), Captain America (Steve Rogers), Hulk (Bruce Banner), Black Panther (T’Challa), Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) and Thor. Together, the young Avengers strive to be their best selves while facing off against classic Super Baddies.

MARVEL’S SPIDEY AND IRON MAN: AVENGERS TEAM UP! (New Specials + First-Look)

• Two New 22-Minute Specials Debut: Special #1 premieres Oct. 16 on Disney Jr., next day on Disney+; Special #2 premieres 2026 on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Disney Jr. and Marvel Studios in association with Atomic Cartoons
• Executive Producers: Bart Jennett, Chris Moreno and Harrison Wilcox
• Co-Producer: Becca Topol

The first special — premiering this October — sees Iron Man and the Avengers joining Spidey to stop Ultron and Green Goblin from taking control of the city’s devices.

A second Halloween-themed special will premiere Fall 2026.

MICKEY & MINNIE’S HOLIDAY SONGS: HALLOWEEN (New Stop-Motion Shorts)

• Debuts Sept. 29 on Disney Jr. and Oct. 2 on Disney+
• Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in association with Disney Jr.
• Director/Producer: David H. Brooks
• Supervising Producer/Director: John Harvatine IV

These new sing-along stop-motion music videos feature Mickey, Minnie and the gang as they get into the Halloween mood.

“MICKEY & MINNIE’S HOLIDAY SONGS: CHRISTMAS” (New Stop-Motion Shorts)

• Debuts this December on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in association with Disney Jr.
• Director/Producer: David H. Brooks
• Supervising Producer/Director: John Harvatine IV

These sing-along stop-motion music videos feature Mickey, Minnie and the gang as they get into the Holiday spirit.

RETURNING SERIES

MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE+ (New Season Orders — Seasons 2 and 3)

• Season 2 debuts 2027; Season 3 debuts 2028 on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Disney Television Animation
• Executive Producer: Rob LaDuca
• Co-Producer/Story Editor: Kim Duran

A continuation of the beloved EmmyⓇ Award-winning original series, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ welcomes the next generation of preschoolers and their families to the iconic Clubhouse for all-new, plussed-up adventures with Mickey, Minnie and their pals. The first 10 episodes of Season 1 are currently streaming on Disney+, with additional episodes set to debut this fall.

SUPERKITTIES (First-Look)

• Season 3 debuts Sept. 22 on Disney Jr. and Oct. 1 on Disney+
• Produced by Sony Pictures Television – Kids in association with Disney Jr.
• Creator: Paula Rosenthal
• Executive Producers: Sarah Mullervy, Kirk Van Wormer and Audu Paden

SuperKitties — Top 10 most-watched streaming series for preschoolers — is an adorable and action-packed series about four fierce and furry superhero kittens — Ginny, Sparks, Buddy and Bitsy — who are on a mission to make their town of Kittydale a more caring and “pawesome” place. Season 3 introduces the new “Su-Purr Wild” story arc in which the SuperKitties travel into the Kittydale Wild Jungle to adventure with their wildcat friend, Willa, and new jungle critters.

CASTING NEWS

SOFIA THE FIRST: ROYAL MAGIC

• New series set to debut 2026 on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Disney Television Animation
• Creator/Executive Producer: Craig Gerber

As previously announced, Ariel Winter (Modern Family) will return in the titular role as the voice of Sofia in this new series featuring the beloved Sofia the First, set to debut in 2026 on Disney Jr., then Disney+.

Announced today are additional returning cast members from the original series including Wayne Brady (Let’s Make A Deal) as Clover, Tim Gunn (Project Runway) as Baileywick, Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family) as Minimus, Sara Ramirez (Grey’s Anatomy) as Queen Miranda and Travis Willingham (The Legend of Vox Machina) as King Roland.

Sofia the First: Royal Magic follows Sofia as she attends The Charmswell School for Royal Magic, where she discovers she is the most magical princess in the realm and must learn how to master her powers while making new royal friends.

HEY A.J.!

• Debuts 2026 on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Surfing Giant Studios
• Executive Producers: Martellus Bennett, Jeff “Swampy” Marsh and Michael Hodges

Inspired by former Super Bowl champion and children’s book author Martellus Bennett, the upcoming new family comedy series Hey A.J.! is a whimsical and music-filled family comedy about an imaginative young girl who, along with her stuffed bunny sidekick, uses her big imagination to make ordinary life moments extraordinary.

As announced today, Amari McCoy (Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends) will star as lead character A.J., Martellus Bennett will voice her father, Marty, and GRAMMYⓇAward-nominated Jhené Aiko voices her mom, Siggi. Rounding out the cast is Juliet Donenfeld (Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures) as A.J.’s best friend Jessie, Innocent Ekakitie (Bunk’d) as Jazz, and David Mitchell (Phineas and Ferb) as A.J.’s bunny sidekick Theo. Pop superstar and GRAMMY Award winner Meghan Trainor will recur as A.J.’ s best friend Jessie’s mom.

PREMIERE DATES

DISNEY JR. ARIEL – THE LITTLE MERMAID (Aug. 22)

• New 22-minute special debuts Aug. 22 on Disney Jr. and Disney+
• Produced by Wild Canary in association with Disney Jr.
• Executive Producer: Lynne Southerland

The new 22-minute special Disney Jr. Ariel – The Little Mermaid: The Glow Crystals will debut Aug. 22 on Disney Jr. and Disney+, and will air in rotation as part of Disney Jr.’s World Princess Week programming line-up (Aug. 24-30). It follows Ariel as she and her friends use their special gifts to rescue her family after a glitch in Ursula’s crystal ball sends her, Triton and Sebastian into a mystical cavern.

FIREBUDS (Sept. 15 on Disney Jr., Oct. 29 on Disney+)

• Season 3 to debut Sept. 15 on Disney Jr. and Oct. 29 on Disney+
• Produced by Disney Television Animation
• Creator/Executive Producer: Craig Gerber

Firebuds Season 3 will debut this September on Disney Jr. and October on Disney+, it was announced today. The series follows a team of young kids who are the children of first responders, living in the fantastical world of Gearbox Grove and Motopolis, where humans and their talking vehicle sidekicks work and play together. Season 3 introduces a new “Aquabuds” story arc and finds the Firebuds crew back with some new friends and equipped with new gear to use in daring water rescues.

STAR WARS: YOUNG JEDI ADVENTURES — (Fall 2025)

• Season 3 to Debut this Fall on Disney Jr., then Disney+
• Produced by Lucasfilm in collaboration with Wild Canary for Disney+ and Disney Jr.
• Executive Producers: Michael Olson, James Waugh, Jacqui Lopez and Josh Rimes

The anticipated third season will debut this Fall. Set 200 years before The Phantom Menace, during the High Republic era, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures follows Jedi younglings as they study the ways of the Force, explore the galaxy, help citizens and creatures in need, and learn valuable skills needed to become Jedi along the way. Season 3 follows the young Jedi as they delve into the world of droid care, befriending a droid shop owner named Dotti and three new droids: Beepers, Dozer and Gigi.

*Source: Disney Internal Streaming Data: Based on views after 6 days of streaming

**Source: Nielsen Media Research Streaming Content Ratings; 7/21-7/27/25 Live Streaming Live Streaming; Ranked on Avg Audience (hours/runtime) for streaming series tracked by Nielsen